Trump Globally Launches New Truth+ ‘Video Streaming Service’ That’s Just Right Wing Propaganda And Gibberish
from the fill-your-head-with-pudding-and-hate dept
Trump recently launched a “wireless phone service,” which as we mentioned, isn’t so much a real phone service as it is a quick licensing agreement and a lazy rebranding of other services. He’s also exploiting the presidency by launching a vast array of new, clumsily branded Trump home goods, including a new Trump-branded Instantpot. If you’re into that sort of thing.
The Trump empire also recently announced they were globally launching Truth+, the Trump regime’s video streaming propaganda service. Here too, the product is mostly just a bundling of existing right wing propaganda and fake journalism video channels pandering to far right wingers, including NewsMax, Real America’s Voice, One America News Network, RSBN and Patriot TV.
The press release for the propaganda bundle claims that this bonanza of bullshit and propaganda is essential in restoring Americans’ sagging trust in news and journalism:
“Truth+ is the singular option for non-woke TV and movies, as well as a great alternative to discredited legacy news channels that have squandered the trust of the American people.”
While we’re on the topic of U.S. journalism and trust, if you dig through the all of the U.S. reporting on this otherwise uninteresting launch of Truth+ you can’t find a single outlet that mentions this isn’t reliable, accurate journalism — much less directly calls out these channels’ history of propaganda. Zero mention, across any of them, that these outlets are filled with conspiracy theories and lies.
Outlets like The Wrap and Mediate, for example, just pretty much copy and paste the Trump regime’s press statements on the service. The same at Reuters.
Nobody, at any of the “news” outlets covering the launch of this fake news expansion, mention Trump’s blatant attacks on the First Amendment and real journalism (despite CBS paying Trump a bribe just a week earlier!). Nor do any of the outlets parroting the Truth+ press release bother to mention Trump Media’s repeated run-ins with super dodgy financial impropriety. Just not relevant, I guess.
Trump+ probably won’t be interesting or popular enough to have much of an actual impact by itself. OAN, for example, makes a lot of noise but historically sees very low viewership numbers. Viewership has been so low, major cable TV providers like Verizon and DirecTV kicked them out of their lineups, causing no shortage of whining from Trumplicans falsely claiming they were being unfairly censored.
Still, it’s part of a much broader, and far more successful right wing effort to steadily replace U.S. journalism with lazy culture war infotainment and propaganda as far as the eye can see. Peppered with overlarge, semi-functional corporate media companies too afraid to tell anybody the truth, and a handful of actual journalists increasingly operating on shoestring budgets.
Either way, supposed free thinkers can now more easily fill their heads with billionaire-approved bile, pebbles and hate, literally branded as the truth. Whose to question the wisdom of the free market?
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For the left...
… the head of PBS says it best. “Truth gets in the way of getting things done…”
Pretty much sums up their ethos.
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Except if you actually listen to the TED Talk, she’s functionally paraphrasing Jonathan Swift’s statement that “You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.” She wasn’t advocating for ignoring the truth. She was saying that for significant disagreements, people who disagree with you aren’t necessary disagreeing about facts or the truth but are just feeling their feelings intensely.
That you ignored the truth of what she was actually saying is hilariously ironic. You are literally the type of person she is saying it’s not useful to engage with on the matter of truth because you don’t actually care about what is true.
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That’s a lovely whatabout but sir, this is an arbys.
It’s the same pattern as the “everything app” X by attacking Big Tech, going after Twitter with “Truth Social”, going after Disney and Netflix with “Truth+”, going after Apple with a “Trump Mobile”/”T1”, maybe going after Google with a “Truth Search” (that would filter out 99% of the web), going after Amazon with “Truth Shop” (that would only sell Trump products), OpenAI with “GPTruth” (that would be smarter than Trump), and so on.
The only two differences is that Trump doesn’t have gazillions to spend in theses projects (even so the final products are equally sucking), and that is supposed to be bounds to the First Amendment in its content moderation…
Oh boy, I hope they make a fascist game studio next!
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What’s Curt Schilling up to these days?
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Have I missed something? Is he a far right-winger?
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He ended up on Blaze.
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Yep. Start at the “Political Involvement” section, and then keep going to learn about his game studio that took $75 million in government loans and then filed for bankruptcy.
A "Trump-branded Instantpot"?
Is that what you are supposed to be using for anti-LBGQT+ domestic terrorist attacks?
AI crawlers
Won’t somebody please think of the AI crawlers. If they start using Truth+ as training data, who knows what nightmarish creations they will create.
Second thoughts: maybe that would be a feature, not a bug? Make AI models so full of garbage people stop using them?
Re: Nobel's big mistake
That’s what Nobel thought when inventing dynamite. Just look at Trump: there is no way to create something so awful that people will not embrace it eventually.
Also the foundation of Poe’s Law.
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Well, Elon Musk’s Grok went full Hitler yesterday (and is probably the reason Linda Yaccarino stepped down as Twitter’s CEO earlier this morning), so I guess we already know what they’d make.
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It’s possible Yaccarino stepped down not because she actually cares, but because she doesn’t want to be around for the consequent backlash.
Was that a bit of Freudian slip in the third-to-last paragraph where you called the streaming service by the current president’s name, and not “Truth+”?
(ick either way)
Tangentially related, Elmo’s Grok AI has taken to calling itself “MechaHitler” and spreading anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.
I’m not joking.
Re: I can imagine how that happened
Listen, Grok. Albert Einstein was genius. You got all his utterances and writings, right? Now Elon Musk is genius squared. You got him as well, right?
Now I want you to be genius cubed: go on again as far as it takes to get from Einstein to Musk.
Result: MechaHitler. If you are lucky.
I have an Instant Pot but it’s always been lacking something. No matter how many spices I put in, my roasts come out bland. I never realized what it was but now I think it’s the fresh, crisp flavor of fascism. There’s nothing quite like nice white power ribs slow cooked for 14:88.
If it has "Truth" in the name...
…it probably isn’t.
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That’s similar to tools that have “professional” in their tag line. Those are not the tools bought by professionals.
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“Pravda” had the same problem.
My Truth...
Woke TV and Movies are the best.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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I am not fond of getting obnoxious education when looking for entertainment. It is just no substitute. I recently looked at an installation of a crime series, and it kind of centered around key witnesses that were drag queens. Now the portrayal of the drag queen scene was well-done and relatable, but the crime plot and police work was completely absurd, ruining the film thoroughly.
The net result was an annoyance because the focus on the woke part of the content apparently detracted the director and the writers from actually making the story fit together.
In a way, they put the plot in drag: wildly exaggerated and superficially held together by connecting overpainted tropes. But wokeness is no excuse for shoddy work.
I’ve seen really good integrations in that genre, where everything fit together and made sense. But overall the results tend to end up more of a mixed bag when overrelying on the excuse of being educational.
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This reads like an LLM tried to make an “anti-woke” complaint and ended up making something that sounds highfalutin but reads so wooden and robotic that it ends up being hilarious for the wrong reasons.
Also: “installation”? LMAO, train your model better next time, dude.
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Is that the new version of “learn our language properly, foreigner”?
Your whole complaint does not address any point I make but tries to disparage it by scoffing at the word choice and making a long-winded complaint that is a rather lame ad hominem attack. Or if you want to, an ad machinam attack except that no machine was involved here.
Which is pretty obvious since nobody trains a private AI individually as you try to suggest.
Do you have an actual argument to make?
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Do what? Are you living in 2020 or something?
'We can't do journalism, we might offend a billionaire!'
“Truth+ is the singular option for non-woke TV and movies, as well as a great alternative to discredited legacy news channels that have squandered the trust of the American people.”
The funny thing is that second half actually has a large amount of truth to it, however the reason they’ve been discredited and lost the trust of the public is not because they’ve been ‘pandering to the woke’ but because they went in the opposite directly entirely, refusing to call out abhorrent behavior from conservatives lest they be accused of ‘anti-conservative bias’ and instead turning themselves into nothing more than spineless PR agencies that will uncritically report whatever someone rich and/or powerful tells them.
Few believe me, but it c an be done
Hypnosis using voice involves using specific vocal techniques to guide a person into a relaxed, suggestible state. Key elements include a calming tone, slow pace, and clear articulation to facilitate relaxation and focus. By manipulating voice characteristics like pitch, speed, and depth, a hypnotist can enhance the effectiveness of suggestions.
Watch for vocal patterns, there are a few that all work, its a sales trickm its a trick for preachers.
You can try it with writing, but Its best interactive.
Truth plus what?
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That’s the clincher. Probably akin to “Get me some tea plus rum. Oh, and don’t bother with the tea.”
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No, no, no. It’s “Truth” plus fact-free bigotry.
"Just ignore the Nazis"
For real I was told this by a service who decided to start posting on a Nazi encouraging video site. I immediately blocked them.
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‘Just ignore the nazis’, yeah because historically that’s worked out great for the non-nazis…
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Show me a man, and I will show you the law he broke
Ya’ll lucky your “site” is so insignificant and that the DOJ has bigger fish to fry for the time being. That won’t be the case for long. I mean, your “tech” site will still be insignificant, but eventually DOJ will notice the seditious writings you are publishing. You have people who claim to be lawyers on the team. Maybe they should research 18 U.S. Code § 2384.
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Wow. Lucky that 18 U.S. Code § 2384 doesn’t apply to any of this, I guess.
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But it can. It’s all up to the prosecutor and the judge.
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And maybe you should research the First Amendment and two-plus centuries of jurisprudence surrounding it. Dissent with the government (and any representatives thereof) is protected speech, no matter how much you personally believe that Donald Trump is God.
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Haven’t you learned anything by now? Under Trump, nothing in the Bill of Rights applies to people he doesn’t like, including white cishet people who disagree with him.
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Tell that to the people getting deported for speaking out against genocide.
You and your centuries of jurisprudence surrounding the First Amendment are living in a distant past, before Trump was crowned King of America in January 2025 amidst the cheers of the combined chambers of Congress and Supreme Court under unified control.
Seems to be a pattern here..
There’s a successful digital business out there, but the MAGA cult doesn’t like it because people there dare to not join in their cult.
So they scream “Woke”, and try to pressure the business to cater to them..
When that doesn’t work, they take their toys and go home and trot out their own “Patriotic” version of the Business, Which almost invariably makes sketchy claims about why it’s better than the original it’s trying to copy..
Then Donald suffers a FOMO attack and jumps in…with a Trump branded and even sketchier version of the “patrotic” buisness…
Social Media..
NFT’s
Crypto..
Sneakers..
Phones..
now Streaming Services and News..